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Example sentences for "one hundred thousand men"

  • The garrison of the city amounted to twenty thousand foot and four thousand horse, and the total force which the city could command was more than one hundred thousand men.

  • He raised an army of one hundred thousand men, and introduced the Roman discipline, but was impeded in his measures by party dissensions and by treachery.

  • But he was again defeated, with the loss of one hundred thousand men in a single day, and sought to make peace with the king of Israel.

  • The weakest in the army, equal to a strong division in a European army of one hundred thousand men.

  • Indian tactics or warfare for masses of forty, fifty, or one hundred thousand men!

  • As if the march and the movements of an army of one hundred thousand men could be kept secret from a vigilant and desperate enemy, and the enemy wanted to read the papers for it.

  • The peace establishment of the emperor amounted to one hundred thousand men, and every one of these was necessary simply to garrison his fortresses.

  • The Austrian party had resolved, by a gigantic effort, to send an army of one hundred thousand men to the gates of Paris, there to dictate terms to the French monarch.

  • The Turks eagerly watched their movements, and, encouraged by these dissensions, soon burst into Hungary with an army of one hundred thousand men.

  • France issued a formal declaration of war against England and Austria, raised an army of one hundred thousand men, and the debauched king himself, Louis XV.

  • Then also we may see armies of from eighty to one hundred thousand men return to a mixed system of war,--a mean between the rapid incursions of Napoleon and the slow system of positions of the last century.

  • If an army does not contain more than one hundred thousand men, the formation by divisions is perhaps better than by corps.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    can have; each corner; false oath; inseparable from; load carrier; one after; one and; one but; one else; one hundred; one hundred and twenty; one hundred thousand dollars; one hundred years ago; one might; one moment; one more; one person; one pound; one that; one thousand seven hundred and ninety; one will; one with; one word; past year; public place; thick cloud